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How the Rule 5 Draft impacted 12 teams' Top 30 Prospects lists

@SamDykstraMiLB
December 11, 2024

MLB Pipeline gives our organizational Top 30 prospect rankings complete refreshes twice per calendar year (once in spring, once in-season) and provides other live updates as graduations and other transactions necessitate them. In the latter category, two dates in particular are our busiest for Top 30 updates: the Trade Deadline

Flores, Leonard get another shot with Tigers after injury setbacks

RHP, INF sign Minor League deals with chance to compete in Spring Training
December 5, 2024

Right-hander Wilmer Flores and infielder Eddys Leonard were both Top 30 prospects in the Tigers' system earlier this year who might have joined the many other prospects to debut in Detroit in 2024 if not for injuries. Both were designated for assignment and became free agents last month to open

6 teams with prospects to trade at the Winter Meetings

December 5, 2024

The Winter Meetings begin Sunday in Dallas, and prospects will certainly be on some teams' shopping lists. Who will get the best holiday-season deal, and which clubs have the juice to make that kind of deal happen?

Inbox: Jobe vs. Painter; prospects who could rise in 2025

November 29, 2024

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Let's dive into some questions to go with the leftovers ...

Here's an early look at the top 2025 Rookie of the Year candidates

November 24, 2024

With Paul Skenes and Luis Gil taking home their leagues' respective 2024 Rookie of the Year Awards, it's time to turn our attention to 2025.

Inbox: Is Liranzo's future with Tigers behind the plate? Chandler in Bucs '25 rotation?

November 22, 2024

The Arizona Fall League is over, with tremendous prospects shutting things down for the offseason. All 30 teams have made their 40-man roster decisions, adding big-name prospects and some sleepers to keep an eye on. So what’s a prospect hound to do? Answer your questions, of course! We answered a

Tigers prospect overcomes injury to win Fall League Triple Crown

November 22, 2024

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8 stats to remember from the 2024 Arizona Fall League

@JesseABorek
November 20, 2024

There’s no denying that the 2024 Arizona Fall League season was historic. There was a little bit of everything in the desert, with record books being rewritten during the 32nd year of prospects putting their skills on display. It’s always difficult to gauge just how significant six weeks' worth of

Gage Workman highlights

November 20, 2024

Here's the 2024 All-Arizona Fall League Team

November 19, 2024

Season No. 32 of the Arizona Fall League is in the books, with the Salt River Rafters beating the Surprise Saguaros, 3-2, in the Championship Game on Saturday. It was another fall full of top prospects and top performances. Below is the 2024 MLB Pipeline All-AFL Team. This is based

Tigers' Briceño, Dodgers' Rosario earn Week 6 AFL honors

November 19, 2024

The Arizona Fall League concluded with the Salt River Rafters claiming an unlikely title with their win over Surprise in Nov. 16’s AFL championship game, bringing a dramatic close to Week 6, and this year, of AFL play. The players honored for their performances in the season’s final week were

Here are the 2024 Fall League award winners

November 16, 2024

For six more weeks again this year, some of the best prospects in baseball shined in the Arizona Fall League, the game’s most elite prospect circuit. Now it’s time to give out some hardware. The Fall League annually awards the Joe Black MVP Award to its top performer, and since

Tigers' Briceño takes home Fall League's Joe Black MVP Award

@JesseABorek
November 16, 2024

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – You don’t always know that you’re witnessing history when you see it. But anyone who watched Josue Briceño on a daily basis during the 2024 Arizona Fall League campaign knew that he was hitting at a prolific rate unlike anything seen in the circuit’s 32 years. On

Who will Tigers protect ahead of Rule 5 Draft?

November 15, 2024

This story was excerpted from Jason Beck's Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox

Pipeline Inbox: Where would Ethan Holliday rank today? More prospect projections

November 15, 2024

The Arizona Fall League is so much fun and just two games remain. The Salt River Rafters and Scottsdale Scorpions meet in a play-in contest Friday that will stream live on MLB.com at 8:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. local. The winner meets the two-time defending champion Surprise Saguaros for the title

Tigers prospect Briceño becomes Fall League's first Triple Crown winner

@mreynoldsMLB
November 14, 2024

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The Arizona Fall League has been host to a who’s who of baseball royalty that cut their teeth in pro ball early in their careers -- future Rookies of the Year and Most Valuable Players Bryce Harper, Mike Trout and Ronald Acuña Jr., to name a few.

Long, Miller earn AFL Week 5 honors

November 12, 2024

Week 5 in the Arizona Fall League was about spotlighting the best the top prospect circuit had to offer, with Fall Star festivities limiting regular-season AFL play to only four days in the desert. These two players stood out for squeezing exceptional performances into that small sample. Mesa corner outfielder/infielder

Only 20, Briceño making big noise with his bat in Fall League

November 11, 2024

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Josue Briceño set the stage for a 2024 breakout by launching 20 extra-base hits in 44 games during his U.S. debut the year before. He got off to a good start in Single-A this season before spraining the posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in mid-May

Arizona Fall League Week 5 top performers

November 10, 2024

Here are the top performers from the fifth week of AFL action:

Go-ahead homer earns Liranzo Fall Stars Game MVP honors

@JesseABorek
November 10, 2024

MESA, Ariz. -- Thayron Liranzo only got one at-bat during the 2024 Fall Stars Game, which made him an unlikely MVP candidate. But when you torpedo a go-ahead home run in the top of the ninth 437 feet at 112 mph off the bat, that’s as good a case as

Arizona Fall League Week 3 top performers

October 27, 2024

Here are the top performers from the third week of AFL action:

Keep an eye on these Tigers prospects in 2025

October 25, 2024

This story was excerpted from Jason Beck's Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. Considering the Tigers just rode a wave of homegrown talent to a postseason run that brought them within a game of the ALCS, it’s

Briceño, Santos II earn AFL Week 2 honors

October 22, 2024

Week 2 of the Arizona Fall League saw teams score in bunches and pitchers light up the radar gun. These strong performances stood out from the pack. Scottsdale third baseman Josue Briceño (DET No. 9) used another huge week at the plate to earn AFL Hitter of the Week honors

Arizona Fall League Week 2 top performers

October 20, 2024

Here are the top performers from the second week of AFL action:

Trade acquisition Liranzo headlines Tigers' Arizona Fall League group

@SamDykstraMiLB
October 17, 2024

Their 2024 season was barely over, and the Tigers were already thinking about 2025. Speaking in an end-of-season press conference Monday, Detroit's president of baseball operations Scott Harris joked that he used to try to talk to manager A.J. Hinch about prospects, only to be met with an ambivalent eye